2023
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Presentazione SLI 2023: [pdf]
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2021
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August 30, 2021: 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), online: 'Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek' (with Marina Benedetti)
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March 24, 2021: First Postclassical Greek Conference, Universität zu Köln: 'Negation and word order in New Testament Greek'
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February 10, 2021: Heritage Languages and Multilingualism Day, University of Insubria: 'Heritage languages and multilingual classrooms. The case of primary schools in Bologna' (with Ilaria Fiorentini)
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January 20, 2021: Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, University of Jerusalem: 'Latin quidem: the interplay of scalarity with negation and contrast in semantic change.' (with Lieven Danckaert)
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January 20, 2021: Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, University of Jerusalem: 'Cycles of renewal and scalar meaning.'
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2020
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October 1, 2020 (streaming): CLUB Day 2020 'Parola al parlato', University of Bologna: 'Archeologia del parlato. Caratteri dell’oralità nel veneziano trecentesco degli Atti del Podestà di Lio Mazor.'
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September 11, 2020 (streaming): Convegno finale Progetto DIMMI, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. With Ilaria Fiorentini: 'La classe plurilingue. Teoria e attività pratiche per la gestione e la valorizzazione della L1 nei bambini migranti.'
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March 30, 2020 (streaming): Discovering Linguistics — Linguistic Discoveries, Ghent University: 'Simply not? How negation is strengthened in discourse, and which effects this may have over time.' Recording: [link]
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March 24, 2020 (streaming): Venice Research Webinars in Linguistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice: 'Indefinites and cyclical change.' Recording: [link]
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February 14, 2020: La grammatica dell’italiano antico e dell’italiano moderno. Bilancio, nuove proposte e prospettive future, University of Padova: 'Elementi correlativi negativi in toscano antico e veneto antico.'
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January 23, 2020: Linguaggio a Roma Tre, Università di Roma Tre: 'La negazione e il mutamento ciclico tra sintassi e semantica'
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2019
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December 6, 2019: Convegno GraVO - Grammatica del Veneto delle Origini, Università di Padova: 'Costruzioni correlative a polarità positiva nel veneto delle origini'
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November 14, 2019: Second International Colloquium on Plurilingualism, Università di Udine: with Ilaria Fiorentini: 'La classe plurilingue: repertori linguistici, auto-valutazione e produzione in un campione di scuole bolognesi'
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October 3, 2019: CLUB Day 2019, 'L'ambiguità nelle lingue e tra le lingue. Prospettive a confronto', Università di Bologna: with Caterina Mauri: 'Uno, l'altro e un altro ancora: ambiguità e disambiguazione dell’alterità'
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September 30, 2019: XXXVI Romanistentag, Universität Kassel: with Klaus von Heusinger: 'Indefinite Demonstrativa zwischen Indefinitheit und Referentialität'
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September 26, 2019: Convegno CILGI 4 'Alfabetizzazione come pratica di cittadinanza: teorie modelli e didattica inclusiva', Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso: with Ilaria Fiorentini: 'IL’alfabetizzazione nella classe plurilingue. Un’indagine a Bologna'
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June 17-21, 2019: XX Coloquio Internacional de Lingüística Latina (ICLL2019), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: with Lieven Danckaert: 'Uses of quidem in positive and negative contexts'
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June 17-21, 2019: XX Coloquio Internacional de Lingüística Latina (ICLL2019), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: with Elisabetta Magni: 'The ambiguity of close appositions: semantic and pragmatic factors in Latin and beyond'
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June 3-4, 2019: Seminario 'Migrazioni e Migranti in Italia', Università di Padova: with Ilaria Fiorentini: 'La classe plurilingue. Ricerca sulla complessità linguistica per una didattica inclusiva'
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May 21, 2019: International workshop 'Simply not? Ways to strengthen negation', Università di Bologna: with Caterina Mauri: 'Simply not? Ways to strengthen negation. An Introduction'
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March 30, 2019: Seminario di studio Lingua, scuola, democrazia, GISCEL, Bologna: with Ilaria Fiorentini and Nicola Grandi 'Il plurilinguismo a scuola: sfide e opportunità'
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February 21, 2019: 45th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università di Padova: poster 'Peculiarities of Negative Concord in Classical Greek'
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January 22-23, 2019: Colloquium, Master Humanités classiques et humanités numériques, Université Paris Nanterre: 'Biblical translations and what they can tell us about ancient grammars and language change' and 'Two are better than one? Fluctuations in the history of Greek and Latin negative expressions'
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2018
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October 31, 2018: Colloquium, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York: 'Cyclical change with epistemic indefinites'
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October 26, 2018: International Conference The shaping of transitivity and argument structure: theoretical and empirical perspectives, University of Pavia. With Maria Napoli (Università del Piemonte Orientale) 'Passivization and argument structure in Old Italian: the case of ditransitive verbs.'
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September 24, 2018: Seminari del Dottorato Interateneo in Scienze dell’Antichità (Venezia-Udine-Trieste), Università di Trieste. 'Settecento fondatore e studio del linguaggio: il ruolo delle lingue classiche.'
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September 4, 2018: Latin Vulgaire - Latin Tardif XIII, Budapest 2018, Eötvös Loránd University. With Elisabetta Magni (Università di Bologna) 'The diachrony of restrictive appositions.'
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June 6, 2018: 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 20), University of York. 'Indefinites and negation in Ancient Greek.'
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May 17, 2018: Anglia Ruskin - Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, Cambridge University. 'The rise of Negative Concord: a comparison between Greek and Romance.'
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April 12, 2018: Conference A corpus and usage-based approach to Ancient Greek, University of Latvia, Riga. 'A corpus study of negation and indefinites in Archaic and Classical Greek.'
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2017
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November 21, 2017: Formal Diachronic Semantics 2 (FoDS 2), Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken. 'Grammaticalization parameters and the retrieval of alternatives: Latin nec from discourse connector to uninterpretable feature.'
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September 4, 2017: Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 9 (SPE 9), Università di Padova. With Cecilia Poletto, Jacopo Garzonio, Silvia Rossi, Camilla Covazzi, Irene Caloi, Matthieu Segui and Emanuela Sanfelici: 'Classifier-like ontological categories: a view inside quantifiers, wh-items and n-words.'
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September 6, 2017: 19th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 19), Stellenbosch University. With Jacopo Garzonio: 'From nec to né: The Interaction of Focus and Negation'. Abstract: [Link]
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August 3, 2017: 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 23), University of Texas at San Antonio. Workshop Logical vocabulary and logical change: 'Synchrony and diachrony of a multifunctional particle: Latin nec.' Slides: [Link]; video of presentations:[Link]
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July 31, 2017: 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 23), University of Texas at San Antonio. With Marina Benedetti: 'Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Ancient Greek'.
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July 5, 2017: 12th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM), Cambridge University. With Jacopo Garzonio: 'From nec to né: The Interaction of Focus and Negation'.
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April 5, 2017: 19th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL 19), München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 'The diachronic path of Latin focus-sensitive negation'.
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March 14, 2017: 40th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 2017), Universiteit Leiden, Workshop Compositionality at the interfaces: 'Correlative negation at the interfaces and in diachrony: syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Latin nec'. Abstract: [Link]
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February 16, 2017: 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 43), IUSS Pavia. With Jacopo Garzonio: 'From nec to né: The Interaction of Focus and Negation'.
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2016
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December 8, 2016: Going Romance 2016,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: Focus-sensitive negation and the Latin seeds of Romance Negative Concord
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September 2, 2016: 49th Annual
Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2016),
Workshop 'Notions of 'feature' in linguistic
theory: cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic
perspectives': Semantic and formal features in
negation systems: diachronic implications
Slides: [pdf]
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July 18, 2016: XXVIII Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e
Filologia Romanza (CILFR), Workshop
'Morfologia e Sintassi': La negazione latina in
diacronia. Un approccio parametrico
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| June 21, 2016: Kolloquium der
Romanistik, Universität Hamburg: The role of
Focus in the Quantifier Cycle |
| June 9, 2016: Symposium on Latin and Romance Linguistics (On the
Occasion of Laura Migliori's Defence),
Universiteit Leiden: The role of Focus in the
Quantifier Cycle |
June 1, 2016: Mini-Workshop on Negative Quantification,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.: The role of
Focus in the Quantifier Cycle
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May 17, 2016: Conference 'Latina
Didaxis', Università di Genova: Aspetti
grammaticali delle traduzioni bibliche e il loro
ruolo nella didattica della lingue classiche
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April 14, 2016: UFSP
SpuR Kolloquium, Universität Zürich, with
Klaus von Heusinger: Between definite and
indefinite - four uses of demonstratives
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April 14, 2016: Seminar 'La
Référence', Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark, with
Klaus von Heusinger: Dereferentialisierung: von
indefiniten Pronomen zu Polaritätsausdrücken
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March 1, 2016: Corso di
Glottologia, Dr. Maria Napoli, Università del
Piemonte Orientale: 'La ricostruzione in
sintassi: problemi e prospettive'.
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February 15, 2016: Conference 'Postclassical Greek: Intersections of
Philology and Linguistics', Üniversität Mainz:
'Syntactic factors of the Greek genitive-dative
syncretism'.
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2015
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December 7, 2015:
Workshop 'Language acquisition, variation and
change: A view from syntax and its interfaces',
Universität zu Köln. 'Inversion as Focalization
in the Determiner Phrase'.
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September 19, 2015: Workshop
of the Göttingen Spirit Summer School on
Negation, Universität Göttingen: 'From
Double Negation to Negative Concord in the
history of Latin'. Slides: [pdf]
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September 17, 2015: 12th
International Conference on Greek Linguistics
(ICGL 12), Berlin, Freie Universität, with
Nikolaos Lavidas: 'Language contact and
typological universals: Cognate noun
constructions in the history of Greek'.
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July 31, 2015: 22nd
International Conference on Historical
Linguistics (ICHL 22), Napoli, Università
Federico II, Workshop 'Patterns and models of
semantic change': "The role of emphasis in the
Quantifier Cycle". Abstract: [pdf]
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June 25, 2015: Wuppertaler
Linguistisches Forum, Bergische
Universität Wuppertal: “Negative
Indefinitpronomina und Satzstruktur“
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June 18, 2015: 18th
International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics
(ICLL 18), Université de Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail:
"Negation and indefinites in Late Latin"
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May 31, 2015: 17th
Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
(DiGS 17), University of Iceland: "Negation and
negative indefinites in the history of Latin".
Abstract: [pdf]
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May 5, 2015: Seminar
'Sprachgeschichte', Prof. Dr. Cecilia Poletto,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: "Negative
Indefinitpronomina und Satzstruktur in Latein"
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February 27, 2015: 41th Incontro
di Grammatica Generativa (IGG 41),
Università per Stranieri di Perugia: "The syntax
of Latin negation". Abstract: [pdf]
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| February 6, 2015: Seminari
della Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa:
"Indefiniti e negazione nella storia del latino" |
2014
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November 4, 2014: Kolloquium
des Englischen Seminars,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: "The
diachronic interplay of indefinites and negation
from Latin to Romance: a first assessment".
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July 3, 2014: Workshop 'What
happened to Principles and Parameters?',
Villa Salmi, Arezzo: "Parametric explorations in
the grammar of possession".
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June 28, 2014: Workshop RED14
- Indefinites in Discourse Structure,
Universität zu Köln: "Indefinites in discourse
and diachrony".
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| April 5, 2014: GLOW 37, Brussels,
Semantics Workshop: ‘Understanding Possession’:
"Internal and External possession in the
diachrony of Greek". Abstract: [pdf] |
March 7, 2014: 36.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGFS), Marburg;
Workshop Workshop 'Language in Historical
Contact situations (LHC): diagnostics for
grammatical replication': "Diagnosing
grammatical replication in translations: the
case of Greek and Latin affected possessors".
Handout: [pdf]
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2013
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September 28, 2013: 11th
International Conference on Greek Linguistics,
University of the Aegean, Rhodes. With Nikolaos
Lavidas: "Focused cognate nouns and case.
Evidence from Biblical Greek".
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August 28, 2013: Workshop
on Indefinites in Discourse, Cologne: "The
specificity of aliquis from Latin to
Romance"
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July 16, 2013: XXVIIe
Congrès international de linguistique et de
philologie romanes (CILPR2013), Nancy: "Aliquis
tra latino e romanzo"
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May 23, 2013: 17th
International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics,
Roma - Tor Vergata: "The history of aliquis
and the system of Latin specific indefinites"
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April 6, 2013: Workshop Systematic
Semantic Change, University of Texas at
Austin: "The specificity of aliquis from
Latin to Romance"
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| February 23, 2013: 39th
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG39):
"The specificity of aliquis from Latin
to Romance" |
2012
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November 9, 2012: Workshop Nereus
VI:
Theoretical implications of the
syntax/semantics interface in Romance,
Universität zu Köln: "The history of aliquis
and the system of Latin specific indefinites".
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| October 12, 2012: Dem
Genitiv: Konstanz-Essex-JNU New Delhi Genitive
Workshop, Universität Konstanz: "How the
dative ensured the genitive a long life: A
successful genitive story from the diachrony of
Greek". |
July 6, 2012: 14th
Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
(DIGS XIV), Universidade de Lisboa. "Specific
indefinites in Late Latin", poster presentation.
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April 27, 2012: 33rd
Annual Meeting of the Department of
Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki.
With Nikolaos Lavidas: "Cognate objects and case
in the history of Greek".
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March 7, 2012: 34.
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft, Frankfurt a. M.,
Arbeitsgruppe 4 ‘Language Change at the
Syntax-Semantics Interface’. With Agnes Jäger
and Doris Penka: "Language Change at the
Syntax-Semantics Interface: Introduction".
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February 10, 2012: Linguistic
Evidence, Universität Tübingen. "The
diachronic trajectory of Greek genitive clitics:
from DP to VP".
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February 4, 2012: Centre
Alfred Ernout, Université de Paris
IV-Sorbonne: "Specific Indefinites in the
Vulgate".
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2011
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| August 2,
2011: International
Workshop 'Dimensions of Grammar. In honor of
Paul Kiparsky', Konstanz. "Evaluating
pertinacity in syntax". |
| June 5,
2011: DIGS
XIII, Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference,
University of Pennsylvania. "How did genitives
become datives in Greek?", poster presentation.
Abstract: [pdf] |
| May 13,
2011: Seminari
del Dottorato di Ricerca, Università di
Padova. "Vicende diacroniche del genitivo tra
greco e latino" (also May 19,
Fachbereichskolloquium, Universität Konstanz:
"Comparing paths of development: genitives in
Greek and Romance"). Abstract: [pdf] |
| April 2,
2011: Workshop
on Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its
development, ISTAL 20, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki. "Which entities
qualify as comparanda for syntactic
reconstruction? The case of external possession
in Indo-European". Abstract: [pdf] |
| February
18, 2011: International
Conference on Linguistics and Classical
Languages, Università di Roma Tre.
"External Possession in New Testament Greek",
poster presentation.. |
2010
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| December
9, 2010: Going
Romance 24, Universiteit Leiden. “The
syntax of genitives from Late Latin to Old
French” (also December 13, SFB-Kolloquium,
Universität Stuttgart). Slides: [pdf] |
| November
27, 2010: Colloque
international de syntaxe grecque et latine,
École Normale Supérieure & Université Paris
IV - Sorbonne. “A contrastive analysis of
adnominal genitives in the Greek and Latin New
Testament”. |
| November
19, 2010: Formal
Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin,
Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia & Università
di Udine. “A contrastive analysis of adnominal
genitives in the Greek and Latin New Testament”. |
| July 26,
2010: Kolloquium
zur indogermanischen Adverbial- und
Kasussyntax, Universität Würzburg. “The
syntax of adnominal genitives in Indo-European
languages: a research project”. |
2009
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| August
11, 2009: 19th
International Conference on Historical
Linguistics (ICHL), Workshop on The Origin
of Non-Canonical Subject Marking in
Indo-European, Universiteit Nijmegen. “Extended
Accusative in Late Latin”. |
| July
22-24, 2009: DIGS XI, Diachronic Generative
Syntax Conference, Universidade de Campinas.
“Prepositional genitives in Romance and the
issue of parallel development”. Abstract: [pdf] |
| May 15,
2009: Workshop on Indo-European Syntax and
Pragmatics, University of Georgia, Athens.
“Jerome as a translator, and his model. A
compared analysis of nominal syntax in the Greek
and Latin New Testament”. |
| April 25,
2009: Swiss Generative Syntax Conference
(SWIGG), Université de Neuchâtel. “Genitive
arguments in Latin and German DPs”. [pdf] |
| April 8,
2009: 15th International Colloquium on Latin
Linguistics, Universität Innsbruck. “The syntax
of the nominal phrase in Jerome’s works: an
inquiry into Late Latin diglossia”. |
2008
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| December
3, 2008: Incontri
Triestini di Filologia classica,
Università di Trieste. “I verbi deponenti latini
e l’unità della flessione in -r”. |
| February
29, 2008: Yale University, Friday Lunch Talks. “Patterns of
syntactic variation and change in the Latin
nominal domain”. |
2007
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| August 6,
2007: 18th
International Conference on Historical
Linguistics (ICHL), Université du Québec à
Montréal. With Cristina Guardiano: “Genitives
and adjectives in the history of Greek and
Latin”. |
| April 11,
2007: GLOW XXX, Workshop on Selective Global
Comparison, Center for Advanced Study in
Theoretical Linguistics, Universitetet i Tromsø.
With Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Modularized Global Parametrization and the form
of parametric variation”. |
2006
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| July 7,
2006: Digital
Humanities 2006, Workshop “Comparing
Aggregate Syntaxes”, Université Sorbonne, Paris.
With Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Is a ‘History and Geography of Human Syntax’
meaningful?”. |
| September
22, 2006: XL
Congresso Internazionale di Studi della
Società di Linguistica Italiana, Università
del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli. With
Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi and
Gabriele Rigon: “Genealogie linguistiche e
tassonomie computazionali. Per una ‘storia e
geografia della sintassi umana’ ” |
2005
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| October
26-28, 2005: The Seventeenth Annual UCLA
Indo-European Conference, UCLA. “The Internal
Syntax of the Nominal Phrase in Latin. A
Diachronic Study”. |
| October
5-8, 2005: The Fifth Asian GLOW, Delhi. With
Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi: “Is
a ‘History and Geography of Human Syntax’
meaningful?”. |
| September
5-7, 2005: The Structure of Parametric
Variation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
With Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Is a ‘History and Geography of Human Syntax’
meaningful?”. |
| June 25,
2005: International Conference on Language
Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 3, Workshop on the
Quantitative Analysis of Language Variation in
Time and Space, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam.
With Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Is a ‘History and Geography of Human Syntax’
meaningful?”. |
| April 8,
2005: 13th International Colloquium on Latin
Linguistics, Facultés universitaires
Saint-Louis, Bruxelles. “The Internal Syntax of
the Nominal Phrase in Latin. A Diachronic
Study”. |
| April 5,
2005: 15th Colloquium on Generative Grammar,
Universitat de Barcelona. With Paola Crisma:
“DP-syntax and parameter resetting in Latin and
English”. |
2004
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| December
11, 2004: Going Romance 2004, Workshop on
Diachronic Syntax and Morphology, Universiteit
Leiden. With Paola Crisma (University of
Trieste): “Where did Romance N-raising come
from? A parallel study of parametric resetting
in Latin and English”. |
| June 24,
2004: DIGS VIII, Diachronic Generative Syntax
Conference, New Haven, Yale University. With
Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Historical and theoretical implications of a
formal model of syntactic variation”. |
| May 17,
2004: TiLT 2004, Tools in Linguistic Theory,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. With
Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi:
“Historical and theoretical implications of a
formal model of syntactic variation”. |
2003
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| June 11,
2003: 12th International Colloquium on Latin
Linguistics, Università di Bologna. “Middle
Voice in Latin and the phenomenon of Split
Intransitivity”. |